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December 12, 2008 |Permalink |Comments (2)
King Lear's Family Values
Remember when you were a teenager and you thought that there was absolutely NO WAY your parents could understand how life really is? For those of us who grew up in the 80s, the angst is best represented by this Will Smith video.
It was much the same for the Lear family, only this time the daughters weren't teenagers... they were fully grown (and ostensibly) mature. The oldest two were dead set in their belief that Dad just couldn't understand how the contemporary world works.
To them, dad just didn’t understand that the young, the “savvy” and the powerful should be left to make the decisions. The young should inherit the earth. These two daughters valued short-term gain and did not respect the experience and wisdom of their elder.
But then there was the black sheep of the family, Cordelia, who valued honesty and self-determination for herself and her father. In the immortal words of Cookie Monster, “one of these things is not like the other.”
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Ahhhh - the disconnect between adults and teens is understandable and usually has a light at the end of the this developmental stage. Now - the disconnect between adult children and their elder parents has no light at the end of the tunnel. The family unit and its values may be a victim to its own mislead perceptions of elderhood, but most likely it is a product of society that does not understand or repect the joys of elderhood. As good leaders say - there must be hope!
HEY
I AGREED WITH THE OPENING COMMENTS ON TEENS AND ADULTS AND A LARGE OF AMOUNT OF MISUNDERSTANDING
I DISAGREE WITH CORDELIA BEING A BLACKSHEEP AND BEING PAINTED AS GOOD AS I BELIEVE SHE IS>
YOU THINK GROWING UP IN THAT FAMILY SHE WOULD HAVE LEARNED GOOD COPING AND SURVIVAL SKILLS
AT THE MAJOR POINT OF A TEST SHOULD COULD NOT EVEN PARTAILLY STAND UP TO HER SISTERS
HOW DID SHE EVER GET TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WITHOUT SOME FAMILY SOCIETAL SKILLS
WAS SHE THAT NAIVE DUMP OR JUST SAID THE HELL WITH IT AND SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES>
JOE DONNA DONNA SHELIA AND LISA